The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1887-12-15
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LETTER FROM KANSAS.

last letter about five months ago on
the arrival of the steamer at Mems
phis, Tenn, so will now try aud
give you au idea of where / have
been spending this time.
| went to Howell county Mo,
where l spent several weeks, then to
Sprinfeld, the largest town in 50 nth
western Mo, having q population OF
10000 and being on the highest
point Of the Ozlrk mountains. Here
| spent two weeks attending the
Springfield aud South western Fair,
then off to Clinton, near which |
bad my first view of Prairie country
This is q town OF 5000 inhabitants
and at the time was there was
very lively, for a short tmo tefore
they opened the largest Artesian
we'll in tho country which was throw
ing out one half million gallons of
sulphur water daily. From there |
went to Kansas City, the New York
Of the west, stopping at the princi-
pal towns along the road, and after
spending q few weeks there, l re-
turned south to Fort Scott, Kan, a
lively town of $4,000 inhabitants,
called here "the Pittsburg of the
west'-having Natural Gas and
many factories, Including large Sor-
gum and Glass works From there
/ went to Newton, where between
pleasure and business spent few
weeks very pleasantly, for almost
every hour of the day l saw some
people ! knew in the east, making it
seem more like old Snyder county.
] then spent few days with a few
Harvey county's reliable farmers
near Ilalstead and few days ago
came to the Forrest City 1t de-
rived that name from its having
many shade trees in it. 1t being
built on the banks of the Arkansas
river, trees grow very rapidly. They
claim population of $4,000, and
out of the one hundred and fifty
Physicians in town /. have seen
fourty, 60 do not expect to get ont
Of the Sun Flower State before1SSS
Now Some Of your readers may
say why don't he give description
Of the country as lie goes along? Tc
those / will say that had not in
tended writing 30 much before GO
ing back, but il YOU viii now 60
back with me 10 Memphis ! will try
and tell you what | think Of th,
country to this place. Memphis
named The Bluff city because it is
built on n high bluff overlooking the
Mississippi river, is no city, for dur
ing the Yellow Fever plague it's cof
fers became empty, aud Its charter
was taken and now each ward has it,
own Government. la the centre oI
the city is Court Square, 10 which
are hundreds Of tame gray squirrels
and pigeons. AS in New Olleaus,
about one third of the population il
composed of Negroes. Not having
q bridge over the river at this poiut
the cars are taken over in a transfer
boat, and then we start through Ar
kansas or 'Arkansaw' as it is right,
pronounced there. Between tb,
river aud the Mo. line there is littl,
to speak of, excepting Swamps
Log shanties, Negroes, Mosquitoes
Malaria, and small clearings il
which cotton is raised. For it, the
ground is prepared the same as fol
corn, when the seed is strewen il
the furrow aud covered, aud when i
is about foot high they phil some
out as it 10 generally too thick to d.
we'll. The land in the northern part
is very good, but my principal OBJ
lection to that State is it's malaria.
I will now close at the Mo. lin'
and in my next. we'll try and tel
something Of Missouri and Kansas.
G. w. soHwENK.